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55 of 232 masters
Tim Cook
Executive chairman and former CEO of Apple
26 records
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Lisa Su
Chair and CEO of AMD
18 records
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Lee Kun-hee
Former chairman of Samsung (1942-2020)
15 records
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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
619 records
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Peter Drucker
Management thinker and author (1909-2005)
102 records
AskPhoto Jeff McNeill · CC BY-SA 2.0
Satoru Iwata
Fourth president of Nintendo (1959-2015)
87 records
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Sheryl Sandberg
Former COO of Meta, author of Lean In
31 records
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Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, business author
157 records
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Andy Grove
Former CEO and chairman of Intel (1936-2016)
30 records
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Indra Nooyi
Former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
30 records
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Katharine Graham
Publisher of The Washington Post (1917-2001)
24 records
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Ed Catmull
Co-founder and former president of Pixar
14 records
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Jim Collins
Author of Good to Great
21 records
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John Wooden
UCLA basketball coach, 10 NCAA titles (1910-2010)
48 records
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Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO of Uber, former CEO of Expedia
51 records
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W. Edwards Deming
Statistician, pioneer of quality management (1900-1993)
51 records
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Dee Hock
Founder and first CEO of Visa (1929-2022)
86 records
AskMarshall Goldsmith
Executive coach, leadership author
13 records
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Jensen Huang
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
419 records
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Warren Buffett
Chairman emeritus of Berkshire Hathaway, value investor
1,408 records
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Jeff Bezos
Founder and executive chairman of Amazon
513 records
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Jack Ma
Co-founder of Alibaba
72 records
AskPhoto Foundations World Economic Forum · CC BY 2.0
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the United States (1809-1865)
978 records
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Ray Dalio
Founder of Bridgewater Associates, author of Principles
136 records
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of the United States (1882-1945)
945 records
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Lee Byung-chul
Founder of Samsung (1910-1987)
22 records
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Confucius
Ancient Chinese thinker, founder of Confucianism
780 records
AskPhoto Unknown artist, about 1770 · Public domain
Margaret Thatcher
First woman prime minister of Britain (1925-2013)
252 records
AskPhoto Rob Bogaerts · CC0
Lee Kuan Yew
First prime minister of Singapore (1923-2015)
151 records
AskPhoto White House Photographic Office. 1974-1977 · Public domain
Morris Chang
Founder of TSMC
127 records
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Kazuo Inamori
Founder of Kyocera and KDDI (1932-2022)
314 records
AskPhoto Conrad Erb / Science History Institute · CC BY-SA 3.0
Howard Schultz
Former chairman and CEO of Starbucks
135 records
AskPhoto Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company (1863-1947)
511 records
AskPhoto Fred Hartsook · Public domain
Reed Hastings
Co-founder and former CEO of Netflix
124 records
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Sejong the Great
Fourth king of Joseon, creator of Hangul
52 records
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Konosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
41 records
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Sam Walton
Founder of Walmart (1918-1992)
90 records
AskPhoto George Bush Presidential Library and Museum · Public domain
Ratan Tata
Former chairman of the Tata Group (1937-2024)
29 records
AskPhoto St. Gallen Symposium / Universitätsarchiv St.Gallen, HSGN 028/01812 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stephen Covey
Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
30 records
AskPhoto Neshan H. Naltchayan · Public domain
Brian Chesky
Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
56 records
AskPhoto Celeste Sloman · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ren Zhengfei
Founder and CEO of Huawei
43 records
AskPhoto Georges Boulougouris / European Union · CC BY 4.0
Clayton Christensen
Author of The Innovator's Dilemma (1952-2020)
28 records
AskPhoto World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
David Ogilvy
Founder of the ad agency Ogilvy (1911-1999)
40 records
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Narayana Murthy
Co-founder of Infosys
24 records
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Brené Brown
Researcher on vulnerability and courage, author
20 records
AskPhoto Bea Phi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tobi Lütke
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
97 records
AskPhoto Benjamin Forrest · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ernest Shackleton
British Antarctic explorer (1874-1922)
799 records
AskPhoto George Charles Beresford / Adam Cuerden · Public domain
Jason Fried
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp)
790 records
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